Some impressive work in the winners gallery from the 53rd annual World Press Photo contest.

Another year has been muddled through, the finish line is in sight. We’ll shortly be setting off for the NSW Central Coast for the next little while. I believe the plan is to do as little as possible once there.
Posting will continue here until Friday morning (by way of the WP timestamp) and then [...]

You’re more likely to succeed in breaking bad news if you blend it with some – even if it is a little – positive news.
In finance, for example, a mutual fund posting a quarterly loss would be better perceived by investors if the accompanying information pointed out the portions of the portfolio that posted [...]

Apologies for the downtime over the last few days. My webhost was the subject of a hack attack on Thursday afternoon Sydney time. Apparently ten per cent of the sites they were hosting were effected. You can read more about the incident here, it may be eye opening.
I’ve since moved disassociated to another webhost so [...]

A four step recipe newspapers may be able to use to reinvent themselves, which includes utilising the services of an array of bloggers – as freelance writers – to provide content and opinion.
Find the best bloggers in the city, court them and recruit them into a partnership. Create a full view of [...]

Check with your editor that there is a reasonable half chance that the story idea you have will be published before taking up too much time of those you need to interview, or ask information of, in the course of researching and writing your article.
Be Respectful of the Other Person’s Schedule. Many reporters [...]

“Net Newsers”, people who are typically under 35, university graduates, and well off, are redefining media habits in the US, by shunning traditional news services, such as newspaper and TV news broadcasts, in favour of sourcing news and information from blogs and online news websites.
The biennial Pew Research Center report on changing news audiences described [...]

Another point-of-view in the ongoing newspapers verses blogs as a source of trustworthy information debate:
If online news services want to match the quality and depth of their print counterparts, they will need to hire, quite possibly, the very journalists working for the aforementioned newspapers.
If online viewers want the level of news and opinion that print [...]

Renai LeMay has launched bootstrappr a blog that assesses the viability of new Australian start ups, and makes a call as to whether they will boom or go bust.
First cab of the rank is a review of Streem, a news aggregation site that invites readers to submit news stories and photos, and makes a [...]

Graphic showing the number of newspaper reporting jobs in the US that have been scaled back recently.
The total for 2008 stands at almost 6000 jobs so far.
Via Australian Newsagency Blog.